Generally, your monster should be something that isn’t already terrifying. If you are scared or disgusted by your monster before you even start, you will never be able to create a proper monster of it, and your 3rd grade teacher would remind you that a healthy challenge is important in life.

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2. Teach your monster something that should in theory be useful to you.

This could be anything. You could teach it talk or give you affection when it’s close to you, or even teach it to ring a bell when it needs to go outside to pee. You know, normal everyday useful things.

3. Allow time for your monster to become confident.

This could take as much as a few hours to a few weeks, but it’s important to give your monster enough time to not only gain confidence, but also a sense of entitlement. No monster can truly be a true monster unless it believes it is superior over all other beings, and a bit of a god complex wouldn’t hurt either.

4. Encourage your monster.

By now, your monster should be starting to experiment. Give your monster the right motivation to continue in this behavior.

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Monster is my 14 month old heir’s nickname. It suits him as he genuinely tries to destroy everything I hold dear and there is this gleeful sound he makes when he tries to eat my cats and dog or when he is knocking things off of a shelf or diverting my wife’s attention away from me.